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Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network

Learn about network printing concepts, configurations, Windows network printing, NetWare iPrint service, NDPS components, and best practices. Understand how to share, install, and manage printers over a network effectively.

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Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network

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  1. Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network

  2. Overview • Understand network printing concepts. • Understand Windows network printing. • Understand NetWare network printing.

  3. Understand Network PrintingConcepts • The network should be configured for sharing printers to enable network printing. • Local printer, shared printer, and network printer are the three basic printing configurations used while designing a network and configuring printers.

  4. Understand Network PrintingConcepts Basic printing configurations for networked computers

  5. Understand Network PrintingConcepts • Local print devices. • Shared print devices.

  6. Local Print Devices • A printer is referred to as the print device, and is used for providing printed outputs. • It is essential to install the necessary drivers to ensure proper working of the print device. • A software called printer is required to control the printing process.

  7. Local Print Devices • The printer determines where and when the output should be sent. • Local print devices provide the most convenient way of printing from a workstation computer.

  8. Local Print Devices Add Printer Wizard

  9. Local Print Devices Selecting a Printer port

  10. Local Print Devices Installing the Printer software

  11. Local Print Devices Printer Sharing window

  12. Local Print Devices Printers and Faxes window

  13. Shared Print Devices • Sharing a locally attached printer. • Sharing print devices directly connected to the network.

  14. Sharing a Locally Attached Printer • Repeated interruptions by multiple users may affect the productivity of the user. • There is a reduction in speed and response time, since the computer’s resources are used for providing the required output for multiple users.

  15. Sharing Print Devices Directly Connected to the Network • Print devices connected to the network have their own internal network interface card that provides network identification to the device. • Print devices are generally configured on a centralized network to provide convenient access to multiple users. • Sharing of print devices decreases the purchase, installation, and maintenance cost of the printer.

  16. Understand Windows NetworkPrinting • On a workgroup, a shared print device’s attributes are stored locally on the computer. • On a domain, the print device’s information is added to the Active Directory (AD). • The AD can be used when configuring the network-printing capabilities on Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP Professional Workstation.

  17. Understand Windows NetworkPrinting • On non-domain Windows XP computers, information about the print device can be obtained over the network using the NetCrawler feature. • The NetCrawler searches for and automatically adds all available shared network objects.

  18. Understand Windows NetworkPrinting Add Printer Wizard

  19. Understand Windows NetworkPrinting Selecting a Printer port

  20. Understand Windows NetworkPrinting The following information has to be provided while installing a network-capable print device: • The print device’s IP address. • The print device’s manufacturer and printer type. • A share name for the print device.

  21. Understand NetWare Network Printing • The NetWare 6.0 operating system’s printing service includes a new printing option called iPrint. • The iPrint service is Internet-based, and it uses the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) to make printing available from any computer having an Internet browser. • It uses the Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS) to distribute the print process to all networked users.

  22. Understand NetWare NetworkPrinting • The NDPS effectively combines older print components like the printer, print queue, and print server into one print object called the Printer Agent. • It manages the configuration of the printer through Novell Directory Services (NDS). • The NDPS also handles the drivers used at the workstations.

  23. Understand NetWare NetworkPrinting NDPS includes the following components: • Broker • Manager • Printer • Gateway • Client

  24. Broker • A Broker is an iPrint component essential for the proper operation of Novell’s print process. • It connects the printing process to various services on the NetWare server. • A Broker can be created on a NetWare 6 server using Novell's Internet management feature called iManage.

  25. Broker The Broker provides the following services: • Service Registry Services (SRS) - The Broker is responsible for registering the information and services provided by printers. • Event Notification Services (ENS) - The Broker is responsible for hosting event notification from each printer. • Resource Management Services (RMS) – The Broker serves as the central repository for storing and providing proper drivers or other items such as additional printer fonts.

  26. Broker iPrint Management options

  27. Broker Create Broker

  28. Manager • The NDPS Manager (NDPSM) provides a location for storing information about the network’s print devices. • The information stored in the NDPSM is used to manage the printer’s operation from a particular server.

  29. Manager • The NDPSM is an object created in the NDS tree. • A specific NDPSM can only reside on one server. • Each NDPSM can represent more than one printer.

  30. Printer • Each print device is represented by a Printer Agent (PA), which is commonly called the Printer or Printer object. • Printer Agents can be software items running on a server. • They can also be embedded in the printer attached directly to the network, to servers, and to workstations. • Each PA can only represent a single physical printer.

  31. Printer The printer objects perform the following functions: • Manage the printing process for their respective physical printers. • Answer any client-generated queries for print job information or printer attributes.

  32. Printer The printer objects perform the following functions (continued): • Provide the server and the user with event-notification information about the printers they manage. • Ensure the scalability of the printing environment.

  33. Gateway • Gateways are information objects that are configured to provide printer specifics over the network. • They translate requests sent to the printers into printer-recognizable machine code.

  34. Gateway • Gateways allow non-NDPS printers to receive print jobs over the network and facilitate their management and use. • Novell NetWare 6 includes Gateways that provide access to printers that are not NDPS-aware.

  35. Client • iPrint client is a small piece of software that is required to use an iPrint printer and the NDPS printing service from the network’s workstations. • The iPrint client is located using the Web browser to reach the iPrint printer.

  36. Summary • Local printers, print servers, and network-capable printers are the three basic printing configurations available. • Print servers refer to computers that offer their printing services to others on the network. • A printer serves as the software interface between an application and the print device.

  37. Summary • The Windows XP NetCrawler feature searches and automatically lists all network objects. • Broker, Manager, Gateway, Printer, and Client form the components of NDPS. • The Broker provides Service Registry Services, Event Notification Services, and Resource Management Services.

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